Smith Barney and the 2012 FEC election cycle

The Smith Barney × 2012 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Smith Barney and 2012 yields $301,782. That is 337 itemized lines and 129 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Brokerage employer text still stored after the brand’s later mergers can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping SMITH BARNEY. Related employer words, abbreviations, and occupation titles are not added. The 129 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $5,882,332. Drop the string and you see the entire 2012 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime Smith Barney money versus 2012

A lifetime figure of $5,882,332 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2012 is $301,782, about 5.1%. The leftover $5,580,550 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$5,882,332 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 5.1% describes 2012 inside Smith Barney, nothing else. $5,882,332 is the running sum for exact string SMITH BARNEY. 2012 contributes $301,782 (5.1%); the complement is $5,580,550 (94.9%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $301,782

Packet arithmetic: $301,782 ÷ 337 ≈ $895 per contribution; $301,782 ÷ 129 ≈ $2,339 per donor; 337 ÷ 129 ≈ 2.6 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. 129 unique donors produced 337 itemized receipts. The implied 2.6 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2012 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Smith Barney and the 2012 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is SMITH BARNEY in 2012: $301,782, 337 contributions, 129 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. This packet does not classify 2012 beyond the year number in the facts. The 2012 election cycle hub still contains every other employer string. This tie keeps Smith Barney on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $301,782 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2012 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

Smith Barney entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $301,782 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 337 or $301,782. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $301,782. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements are other FEC tables. USAspending is a different database. Sharing a company-like string does not merge those ledgers.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, employer/industry grouping SMITH BARNEY, election cycle 2012, $301,782, 337 contributions, 129 donors (5.1% of $5,882,332 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $301,782, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: Smith Barney 2012 for the overlay, Smith Barney for other years, 2012 election cycle for other strings, All FEC ties for other joins. The canonical explanation path is the ties URL in the packet. Restating the join without new numbers: Smith Barney in 2012 is $301,782 from 337 itemized individual contributions and 129 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $5,882,332 across cycles, so 2012 is about 5.1% and other windows hold $5,580,550 (94.9%). The grouping is brokerage employer text still stored after the brand’s later mergers, not a Smith Barney PAC, Morgan Stanley as a successor string, or the firm as a corporate treasury. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $895; mean per donor about $2,339; about 2.6 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $301,782.

Questions

How much did Smith Barney donors give in 2012?

$301,782 is the itemized-individual total for SMITH BARNEY in 2012. Volume: 337 contributions, 129 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $301,782, 337 contributions, and 129 donors in the Smith Barney × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,882,332.

What share of Smith Barney FEC money is 2012?

2012 holds $301,782 of the $5,882,332 stored for Smith Barney, roughly 5.1%. The leftover $5,580,550 is other windows on the Smith Barney hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $301,782, 337 contributions, and 129 donors in the Smith Barney × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,882,332.

Does a 2012 Smith Barney string mean the brand still stood alone?

The grouping is brokerage employer text still stored after the brand’s later mergers, not a verified roster. 337 itemized lines from 129 donors produced $301,782 in 2012. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $301,782, 337 contributions, and 129 donors in the Smith Barney × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,882,332.

Where is the overlay for the Smith Barney 2012 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Smith Barney 2012, Smith Barney, 2012 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $301,782 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $301,782, 337 contributions, and 129 donors in the Smith Barney × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,882,332.